[Even alarmist Revkin doesn't buy carbon offsets] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

I don’t buy carbon offsets for my travel, although I do telecommute as much as possible...

Senate debate on ETS gets underway | Australian Climate Madness

We’re in such an odd situation here, with debate going on in Parliament, and parallel back-room negotiations going on outside. With chummy assurances going on outside Parliament, and harsh rhetoric within. Bizarre.

NC Media Watch: Green jobs, and more green jobs in Cap and Trade

It looks like the Obama Administration has finally discovered how to create all those missing green jobs by hiring over a hundreds of thousands of home energy inspectors and house license administrators.

Origins of the Gasoline Tax (Part II of “Political Capitalism: Understanding the Beast that Broke the Cage”) — MasterResource

[from Oil, Gas, and Government (pp. 1375–76).] The political problem involved was chiefly that of map making…. I was asked to draw a state highway map that would win the votes of a majority of the members by placing roads [so] they could take them home with them as pork wrested from Portland…. This map ran in front of the farm homes of enough legislators that . . . 37 representatives joined in introduction of the bill…. It took all day . . . to get the map changed so a majority of the Senate would vote for the bill…. My poor map was almost unrecognizable, but it served its purpose.